It's a moving post, Hough; but perhaps the pain is too personal for him to see with clear eyes
The inability to follow the enemy because of lines on a map or political concerns is the same whether it places Pakistani territory off limits, or Hanoi or land across the Yalu. A soldier should also be a student of history, and nothing about that history leads me to believe that government won't sacrifice countless soldier's lives to secure what they feel is a favorable narrative for their larger strategic goals - assuming they actually have any
I cannot fathom how anyone who came of age in the last 50 years could believe 'this time will be different'
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
That was written in 1854
The inability to follow the enemy because of lines on a map or political concerns is the same whether it places Pakistani territory off limits, or Hanoi or land across the Yalu. A soldier should also be a student of history, and nothing about that history leads me to believe that government won't sacrifice countless soldier's lives to secure what they feel is a favorable narrative for their larger strategic goals - assuming they actually have any
I cannot fathom how anyone who came of age in the last 50 years could believe 'this time will be different'
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
That was written in 1854